Captain America & Bucky would have a better chance than some of the ones you just listed. At least with Cap and Bucky you could do it as a WWII period piece, throw in some Saving Private Ryan realism for contrast, and sell it to the serious patriots. "Go see Cap & Bucky to prove you love America or you can geeeeeet out".
On the sig, fad. It's nothing but one more easy, pathetic fad. There's a segment of the American public that can't resist convenient patriotism. They want it rolled up nice and neat and available for sale at the checkout.
Part of me (the larger part) hates the shit out of those things while another part of me wishes I'd thought of it first because someone is making a buttload of money off of those things.
As patriotism goes though it's a weak imitation. It's patriotism with a condom on. It's being vocal from the safety of your SUV.
I thought everyone knew that. I also have reservations about the direction Apple is going with this new CHUD thing they're doing. I presume this has something to do with the word "lickable".
I don't know about AMD's "Bravo" but Intel's isn't going to be delivered until they put something in that plastic box with a clock on the front that they tried to pass off as some sort of mock up wanna-be Mac Mini.
Actually, rabid Mac fan though I am I find myself routinely pulling for AMD. Love those guys.
No it was not. I saw it. I saw it 22 fucking times (hey I was something like 12 years old so in 1977-78 I lived Star Wars) and there was no "Episode IV" in front of the opening scrawl, there was no "A New Hope" in front of it either.
It was "Star Wars" and that's all it was. Did Lucas plan on making more? So he says. Do I believe him? No way in hell. He may have wanted to tell a bigger story at the time and he may have had an idea in his head where all of this was going and where it came from but I think he's a lying son of a bitch when he starts talking about his master plan and all the magical myth bullshit that he sells.
He made a movie, it was successful to a degree that rarely happens. It wasn't an episode in the middle of some grand series he had planned all along. That's a load of crap. Empire Strikes Back got made because Star Wars made a load of money. Return of the Jedi got made because Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back made a load of money. The prequels got made because... hell I don't know, because George hates us all and wants to punish us for some reason?
Still Episode III looked pretty damned good in the trailer. I'll see it just on the outside chance that it finishes washing the taste of Phantom Menace out of my mouth. Attack of the Clones didn't quite do the trick.
First it's "RTFA!", then it's "Read the thread!". What's next huh? You're probably going to ask us to know something about what were discussing or stay on topic!
Slashdot has just gotten way to demanding. How are we all supposed to fit this in our limited time (Damned work, if it quit bothering me I'd have time to do at least some of that stuff you mention).
For everyone it should. They're just "regular everyday people" and don't give two shits about security (nevermind bullet proof security) right up until that moment when they call and say "I think I might have clicked something bad".
Fucktards. They deserve it. They don't deserve to have ultra paranoid administrators coming along behind them trying to clean up the mess they make. I've long complained about the balancing act we have to do trying to keep things secure at my place of employment but our management insists (I mean that, the literally insist) on being able to send anything and everything via email. They listen to nothing they're told by the people they pay to know about their network. Hell they'd keep every single mail message ever sent to them if we let them. The initial buttmonkey who set up Exchange 5.5 here never bothered to place any limits on their mailbox size. The database had to reach 16GB and shut us down before they would even consider letting us limit their mailbox size and even then it was like pulling teeth just getting these lazy fuckers to drag their mail from the inbox to a personal folder.
I hate users. I want them all dead. They slowly suck your brains out over time and I dread working here long enough to get that stupid.
They should be given text only email with a 256 character limit. No fuck that, they shouldn't even get that. They'd find some way to screw that up too.
You know what bombom, I just don't see this post as being Flamebait and I'm sorry to see you got modded that way. Now personally I'm a godless heathen but I don't see how in the world anyone could possible take that the wrong way.
I'd have gone for Funny if that was my mod point. If I believed in ol' "JC" then I'd probably leaned towards Insightful.
Just curious. And no, I haven't RTFA. I'm just not interested in the story enough to bother and besides, I already know everything I need to know about the music/labels/P2P wars already. I read the comments on Slashdot!
My ass, I was ready to go on a fragging spree when Quake 3 came out. Of course then I realized that there weren't any jump pads near my home and no matter how much I looked I couldn't even find so much as a shotgun sitting around unattended much less a rocket launcher.
Then it occured to me that nobody I knew had ever once successfully respawned and I decided that I'd rather do something else.
I don't know how many times I have to go over this with you people but I'm going to make this sink in if it takes me the rest of my life. On FRIDAYS, after lunch (US, Central time) we like the FCC, if it's an even number day and a story critical of something Apple did earlier in the day is posted while at the same time there are no stories about SCO or the RIAA.
I don't know if a RAMBUS story has any effect on whether or not we like the FCC, give me a few minutes to call somebody and double check the fine print of the Slashdot Manifesto.
There's nothing sad about that. I think I can safely speak for the Mac Nation when I say that Netscape 8 can please stay a minimum of 8 feet away from the computer at all times. That thing looks like ass and not in that good way.
The danger isn't the BSOD, it's the DRM. Your average shiny new "RobotXP" is going to be a wonderful thing right up until your child starts singing a song that's copyrighted. Most of them will get away with it because lets face it, kids generally can't sing. Sooner or later though one of them's going to hit the right notes and sound just close enough to the original version to activate the DRM software.
Then it will strangle the kid and dismember it to locate the non-DRM's music file inside of the child. At the same time it'll be reporting the violation and your home address to the authorities.
I can picture someone standing near the queen whispering into her ear "Do it, you'll never get a chance like this again! For the love of god woman just lop his head off!"
And then when she doesn't it'll be "And you call yourself a monarch! Real kings and queens of England are spinning in their graves right now. You could have at least held him for ransom."
And yet still is and always will be an eMachines piece of crap. At the end of the day when it's all said and done you get what you pay for. You can buy this cheap PC or you can pay $170 more and get a Mac Mini. On one you can run OSX and on the other you get XP Home which you can of course replace with your favorite flavor of Linux if you are so inclined.
It's a personal decision I think. To my way of thinking pretty much anything capable of running OSX is going to be the way to go over anything else even remotely close in price. The hardware arguments you make seem to be very compelling on the surface but they're not enough to make me replace my OS with anything that runs on x86.
My final thought on this is that those 95% of people you speak of "who simply want to surf the net, read email, play some tunes, look at / send photos, and type documents" would have a much better time of it on the Mini. I've been in both camps (Win/Mac) and for those 95% there's no comparison. The software is simply that much better. The software that comes bundled with your typical PC is mostly crap.
On the outside chance you come back and look at this I just wanted to tell you that you're dead right. My comment about any ten Trek fans being able to do a better job was probably not quite so clearly put as I'd like. Could they have made a better show? Not necessarily and I think you bring up a real good point. They're probably going to be prone to making a whole host of other mistakes that could have just as easily doomed the show. I only meant to point out that any of them could have steered around some of the more obvious pot-holes in the road that Enterprise has bottomed out in.
But basically you're right. They'd no doubt make a bunch of completely different mistakes.
I can only speak for myself but personally I believe that season 3 of Enterprise was better than Voyager. Season 4 is an improvement over that.
This show did nothing for two years but provide one reason after another for Star Trek fans to leave. In season three it did a halfway reasonable turnaround but one season wasn't enough to undo the damage, particularly when that one season was a year long story arc. That was a bad decision IMO. If they'd done the kinds of stories they're doing now last season UPN wouldn't be flushing this show. To straighten things out they needed two years of quality storylines and they needed them to be accessible to anyone who hadn't been watching, both new viewers and returning fans.
The single most frustrating thing about the mess Enterprise is in right now is that you could have started this show up with any ten or so Star Trek fans plucked from any convention you wanted to get them from and they could have avoided the mistakes that were made over the last two years. You could bring in anyone you found walking around at a Star Trek convention today and correct whatever is still wrong with it.
There was really lousy cop show that came out a few years back called "Houston Nights" or something along those lines. I don't watch cop drama but like a lot of people in Houston Texas I watched it when it first came on just because it was filmed here. The experience was actually pretty funny.
Houston's not like a lot of the older big cities in the US. Sure there's a downtown but compared to the inner city in most other towns this size it's tiny. The majority of Houston is spread over a huge flat coastal plain (it's been remarked that you could stand on a beer can and see for miles) and nothing is close to anything else. It's urban sprawl at it's worst. The only night I ever watched Houston Nights they got in their car (downtown) and started driving. On their way from the police station to wherever it was they were going they passed several landmarks that are a good twenty miles apart from one another. They were in the car having a conversation and one second they were driving by the Astrodome, two sentences later they were down by the Johnson Space Center, seconds after that they were driving through the museum district and the Galleria.
If I had their car with it's amazing powers I'd never fear rush hour again!
I thought this must be a little taste of what people in LA, New York, and Chicago get when they watch movies filmed in their towns.
That's rich coming from someone who's asking for any version of Star Trek to come back, particularly Enterprise. Hasn't Trek set some kind of all time television record for number of old storylines ripped-off? Even when it's good it's maybe the most predictable stuff you can find on television.
Aside from that feel free to think it stinks. I happen to think it's some good stuff but then I also enjoyed this season of Enterprise which has been cancelled just when it was starting to get good. Pity I can't have more of both.
The power to kill servers anywhere in the world is insignificant compared to... um, no wait that's pretty damned significant actually. Sorry, nevermind.
Plus to the best of my knowledge Slashdot doesn't have an open exhaust port somewhere with a big neon "Place Torpedo Here" sign next to it so apparently we ARE the ultimate power in the universe.
If that country is the United States then I'd have to say yes, I'd rather have one country and it's ideals control what is and what is not acceptable. I'd prefer it to the vast majority of other nations willing to step up to the plate to try and I'd prefer it to an attempt by a largely ineffective collection of them all.
Because if it did it's got to top my best audience reaction story. "Highlander 2" opening night the theater is full. Highly anticipated sequel to a movie that did poorly in theaters but built up quite a following in rental so pretty much everyone there was really looking forward to this movie.
The very first scene pops up and beneath it appears a caption saying something like.
"3000 years ago, the planet Zeist"
I don't know how many people that theater seated but every single person there it seemed whispered "Zeist?" at the same time. Then several people started laughing and it was all downhill from there.
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Captain America & Bucky would have a better chance than some of the ones you just listed. At least with Cap and Bucky you could do it as a WWII period piece, throw in some Saving Private Ryan realism for contrast, and sell it to the serious patriots. "Go see Cap & Bucky to prove you love America or you can geeeeeet out".
On the sig, fad. It's nothing but one more easy, pathetic fad. There's a segment of the American public that can't resist convenient patriotism. They want it rolled up nice and neat and available for sale at the checkout.
Part of me (the larger part) hates the shit out of those things while another part of me wishes I'd thought of it first because someone is making a buttload of money off of those things.
As patriotism goes though it's a weak imitation. It's patriotism with a condom on. It's being vocal from the safety of your SUV.
CHUD = Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller.
I thought everyone knew that. I also have reservations about the direction Apple is going with this new CHUD thing they're doing. I presume this has something to do with the word "lickable".
I don't know about AMD's "Bravo" but Intel's isn't going to be delivered until they put something in that plastic box with a clock on the front that they tried to pass off as some sort of mock up wanna-be Mac Mini.
Actually, rabid Mac fan though I am I find myself routinely pulling for AMD. Love those guys.
No it was not. I saw it. I saw it 22 fucking times (hey I was something like 12 years old so in 1977-78 I lived Star Wars) and there was no "Episode IV" in front of the opening scrawl, there was no "A New Hope" in front of it either.
It was "Star Wars" and that's all it was. Did Lucas plan on making more? So he says. Do I believe him? No way in hell. He may have wanted to tell a bigger story at the time and he may have had an idea in his head where all of this was going and where it came from but I think he's a lying son of a bitch when he starts talking about his master plan and all the magical myth bullshit that he sells.
He made a movie, it was successful to a degree that rarely happens. It wasn't an episode in the middle of some grand series he had planned all along. That's a load of crap. Empire Strikes Back got made because Star Wars made a load of money. Return of the Jedi got made because Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back made a load of money. The prequels got made because... hell I don't know, because George hates us all and wants to punish us for some reason?
Still Episode III looked pretty damned good in the trailer. I'll see it just on the outside chance that it finishes washing the taste of Phantom Menace out of my mouth. Attack of the Clones didn't quite do the trick.
12 actually, I'm out now.
What? Read the thread?
First it's "RTFA!", then it's "Read the thread!". What's next huh? You're probably going to ask us to know something about what were discussing or stay on topic!
Slashdot has just gotten way to demanding. How are we all supposed to fit this in our limited time (Damned work, if it quit bothering me I'd have time to do at least some of that stuff you mention).
For everyone it should. They're just "regular everyday people" and don't give two shits about security (nevermind bullet proof security) right up until that moment when they call and say "I think I might have clicked something bad".
Fucktards. They deserve it. They don't deserve to have ultra paranoid administrators coming along behind them trying to clean up the mess they make. I've long complained about the balancing act we have to do trying to keep things secure at my place of employment but our management insists (I mean that, the literally insist) on being able to send anything and everything via email. They listen to nothing they're told by the people they pay to know about their network. Hell they'd keep every single mail message ever sent to them if we let them. The initial buttmonkey who set up Exchange 5.5 here never bothered to place any limits on their mailbox size. The database had to reach 16GB and shut us down before they would even consider letting us limit their mailbox size and even then it was like pulling teeth just getting these lazy fuckers to drag their mail from the inbox to a personal folder.
I hate users. I want them all dead. They slowly suck your brains out over time and I dread working here long enough to get that stupid.
They should be given text only email with a 256 character limit. No fuck that, they shouldn't even get that. They'd find some way to screw that up too.
Stick and a clay tablet. That's the ticket.
You know what bombom, I just don't see this post as being Flamebait and I'm sorry to see you got modded that way. Now personally I'm a godless heathen but I don't see how in the world anyone could possible take that the wrong way.
I'd have gone for Funny if that was my mod point. If I believed in ol' "JC" then I'd probably leaned towards Insightful.
More important than that were any of them dead?
Just curious. And no, I haven't RTFA. I'm just not interested in the story enough to bother and besides, I already know everything I need to know about the music/labels/P2P wars already. I read the comments on Slashdot!
My ass, I was ready to go on a fragging spree when Quake 3 came out. Of course then I realized that there weren't any jump pads near my home and no matter how much I looked I couldn't even find so much as a shotgun sitting around unattended much less a rocket launcher.
Then it occured to me that nobody I knew had ever once successfully respawned and I decided that I'd rather do something else.
I don't know how many times I have to go over this with you people but I'm going to make this sink in if it takes me the rest of my life. On FRIDAYS, after lunch (US, Central time) we like the FCC, if it's an even number day and a story critical of something Apple did earlier in the day is posted while at the same time there are no stories about SCO or the RIAA.
I don't know if a RAMBUS story has any effect on whether or not we like the FCC, give me a few minutes to call somebody and double check the fine print of the Slashdot Manifesto.
There's nothing sad about that. I think I can safely speak for the Mac Nation when I say that Netscape 8 can please stay a minimum of 8 feet away from the computer at all times. That thing looks like ass and not in that good way.
The danger isn't the BSOD, it's the DRM. Your average shiny new "RobotXP" is going to be a wonderful thing right up until your child starts singing a song that's copyrighted. Most of them will get away with it because lets face it, kids generally can't sing. Sooner or later though one of them's going to hit the right notes and sound just close enough to the original version to activate the DRM software.
Then it will strangle the kid and dismember it to locate the non-DRM's music file inside of the child. At the same time it'll be reporting the violation and your home address to the authorities.
I can picture someone standing near the queen whispering into her ear "Do it, you'll never get a chance like this again! For the love of god woman just lop his head off!"
And then when she doesn't it'll be "And you call yourself a monarch! Real kings and queens of England are spinning in their graves right now. You could have at least held him for ransom."
And yet still is and always will be an eMachines piece of crap. At the end of the day when it's all said and done you get what you pay for. You can buy this cheap PC or you can pay $170 more and get a Mac Mini. On one you can run OSX and on the other you get XP Home which you can of course replace with your favorite flavor of Linux if you are so inclined.
It's a personal decision I think. To my way of thinking pretty much anything capable of running OSX is going to be the way to go over anything else even remotely close in price. The hardware arguments you make seem to be very compelling on the surface but they're not enough to make me replace my OS with anything that runs on x86.
My final thought on this is that those 95% of people you speak of "who simply want to surf the net, read email, play some tunes, look at / send photos, and type documents" would have a much better time of it on the Mini. I've been in both camps (Win/Mac) and for those 95% there's no comparison. The software is simply that much better. The software that comes bundled with your typical PC is mostly crap.
On the outside chance you come back and look at this I just wanted to tell you that you're dead right. My comment about any ten Trek fans being able to do a better job was probably not quite so clearly put as I'd like. Could they have made a better show? Not necessarily and I think you bring up a real good point. They're probably going to be prone to making a whole host of other mistakes that could have just as easily doomed the show. I only meant to point out that any of them could have steered around some of the more obvious pot-holes in the road that Enterprise has bottomed out in.
But basically you're right. They'd no doubt make a bunch of completely different mistakes.
Good point though.
I can only speak for myself but personally I believe that season 3 of Enterprise was better than Voyager. Season 4 is an improvement over that.
This show did nothing for two years but provide one reason after another for Star Trek fans to leave. In season three it did a halfway reasonable turnaround but one season wasn't enough to undo the damage, particularly when that one season was a year long story arc. That was a bad decision IMO. If they'd done the kinds of stories they're doing now last season UPN wouldn't be flushing this show. To straighten things out they needed two years of quality storylines and they needed them to be accessible to anyone who hadn't been watching, both new viewers and returning fans.
The single most frustrating thing about the mess Enterprise is in right now is that you could have started this show up with any ten or so Star Trek fans plucked from any convention you wanted to get them from and they could have avoided the mistakes that were made over the last two years. You could bring in anyone you found walking around at a Star Trek convention today and correct whatever is still wrong with it.
There was really lousy cop show that came out a few years back called "Houston Nights" or something along those lines. I don't watch cop drama but like a lot of people in Houston Texas I watched it when it first came on just because it was filmed here. The experience was actually pretty funny.
Houston's not like a lot of the older big cities in the US. Sure there's a downtown but compared to the inner city in most other towns this size it's tiny. The majority of Houston is spread over a huge flat coastal plain (it's been remarked that you could stand on a beer can and see for miles) and nothing is close to anything else. It's urban sprawl at it's worst. The only night I ever watched Houston Nights they got in their car (downtown) and started driving. On their way from the police station to wherever it was they were going they passed several landmarks that are a good twenty miles apart from one another. They were in the car having a conversation and one second they were driving by the Astrodome, two sentences later they were down by the Johnson Space Center, seconds after that they were driving through the museum district and the Galleria.
If I had their car with it's amazing powers I'd never fear rush hour again!
I thought this must be a little taste of what people in LA, New York, and Chicago get when they watch movies filmed in their towns.
That's rich coming from someone who's asking for any version of Star Trek to come back, particularly Enterprise. Hasn't Trek set some kind of all time television record for number of old storylines ripped-off? Even when it's good it's maybe the most predictable stuff you can find on television.
Aside from that feel free to think it stinks. I happen to think it's some good stuff but then I also enjoyed this season of Enterprise which has been cancelled just when it was starting to get good. Pity I can't have more of both.
The power to kill servers anywhere in the world is insignificant compared to... um, no wait that's pretty damned significant actually. Sorry, nevermind.
Plus to the best of my knowledge Slashdot doesn't have an open exhaust port somewhere with a big neon "Place Torpedo Here" sign next to it so apparently we ARE the ultimate power in the universe.
If that country is the United States then I'd have to say yes, I'd rather have one country and it's ideals control what is and what is not acceptable. I'd prefer it to the vast majority of other nations willing to step up to the plate to try and I'd prefer it to an attempt by a largely ineffective collection of them all.
I'd like to see him crucified on the "Tree of Woe."
It just doesn't sound as cool without the James Earl Jones voice though.
Then look at the monkey. See the monkey? Look at the monkey!
Because if it did it's got to top my best audience reaction story. "Highlander 2" opening night the theater is full. Highly anticipated sequel to a movie that did poorly in theaters but built up quite a following in rental so pretty much everyone there was really looking forward to this movie.
The very first scene pops up and beneath it appears a caption saying something like.
"3000 years ago, the planet Zeist"
I don't know how many people that theater seated but every single person there it seemed whispered "Zeist?" at the same time. Then several people started laughing and it was all downhill from there.